Recipes

Gooood morning, Phoenix! Oh wait, I still live in Colorado. These temperatures are messing with my mind. I don’t know why I’m so over the heat this summer — we still have a long way to go. Perhaps it is that my dessert line has me in the kitchen 24/7, and baby...

Happy trails, hit the trail, get along little doggie. Maybe that last one doesn’t apply, but I like it, so there. This week’s treat will sustain and satisfy: Cranberry Trail Mix Bread. Similar to banana-bread-minus-thebananas. It is chock full of cranberries (...

I can’t tell you how happy I am sister spring is here. I know we still have a few blasts of Old Man Winter (he is so grumpy, that one), but I am celebrating the sun and ignoring the few blasts of nasty sure to pop up...

So, summer is here, according to the calendar, with 90-degree temperatures and the chocolate slowly and surely melting in my cupboard. I guess back in the day Colorado homes didn’t need air conditioning. (So why would we need it now? So glad I fell for that one...

 Now that my foray into fall is in full force, autumn desserts activate...

I promise this won’t be a Valentine’s Day column full of lovey-dovey shizz...

So, I got away with not making resolutions for the New Year, but my question is, “If I want to celebrate Fat Tuesday like a rock star, must I give up something for Lent?” Does one have be Catholic to get the most out of Fat Tuesday, or can I celebrate and wake up ...

I read something the other day that began to the tune of: “The new fad is cheap cuts, slow-cooked and elegantly presented...

They say true love is hard to find, but I must say I have never met a chocolate I didn’t truly love. I would never say I wouldn’t snag up a Hershey bar every now and then, just because a chocolate snob might be mortified, but I must admit, I do like good, quality ...

  Just a spoon full of sugar makes my desserts taste sweet. OK, “helps the medicine go down” is actually the way that tune rolls, but adding my own lyrics makes me feel oh-so-creative and musician-y...

Is it wrong to use words like yummy, yummers, nummers and the oh-so-widely-used phrase “yummers in the tummers...

Well, I’m sticking to the no-bake theme this week...